patricianism

English

Etymology

From patrician +‎ -ism.

Noun

patricianism (usually uncountable, plural patricianisms)

  1. The rank or character of patricians.
    • 1895, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, page 230:
      Here at last, it would seem, simple manhood is to have a chance to play his stake against Fortune with honest dice, uncogged by those three hoary sharpers, Prerogative, Patricianism, and Priestcraft.
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